The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-05-05
THE TWO ESSENTIALS.
TO A TOWNS PROSPERITY AND
GROWTH.
The Importance of Every Ambitious
Community having Good Hotels and
Creditable Newspapers.

Inc importance or Every Ambitious
Community having Good Hotels and
Creditable Newspapers N
There are few publications in the
South accomplishing more real benefit
to the section than the Maeutacturer's
Record, which paper ought to be on
the table of every progressive business
man in Dixie.
In its last issue it discusses a sub
ject which The SENTINEL has often :.
brought to the attention Of its readers,
namely, the Importance of every wide
awake town sustaining good hotels and
creditable newspapers. There is so,
many good ideas in the article men
toned that we reproduce entire e.
There is great need throughout tbs
South, and especially in the growing
towns to which many visitors are
focking, Of good hotels To be COM
PEELED to spend a lew days at some of
the so-called hotels, even in prosper
Gus places, is enough to keep away
many who would visit these towns
Some days ago prominent Baltimore
capitalist, who contemplated trip
South with view to making invest
ments, was discussing this matter.
f" could put up, said he, with some
of these hotel drawbacks myself, but
want to take my family along and [
want to know where the best hotels
are to be found. L know from expert
, ence what the majority of Southern
hotels are and | am not willing to
take my people to them This gen
tleman was representative of very
| large class: People who have been
accustomed to the best Northern
, hotels look with dread upon the idea
of travelling in the South because of
the lack of hotel accommodations
The building of good hotels and the
running of them in the very best
manner, will do more to advertise d
town than any other enterprise, ex-
cept first-class newspaper. The
newspaper is probably first in adver-
tising town, and when good papes
is supplemented by a good hotel that.
town has two agencies that day and.
. night, week days and Sundays, are
steadily advertising it to the world.
The travelling man tells his friends of
I. the frst-class hotel that he will find
there and thus every guest becomes an
. advertising agent for the hotel and the
town. The newspaper is everywhere
2 regarded as typical of the place il
which it is published. If the local
5 papers of any town are enterprising,
I well managed, and giving good evi-
3 dence Of prosperous times in their ad
7 vertising columns, then every copy OF
these papers that is published becomes
an advertisement Of the place.
There are some points in the South
4 where these facts are appreciated, and
t the lessons that these places teach
ought to be impressed upon every one
e interested in the prosperity Of the
8 South. Florida is good illustration
y of what hotels do 1t is the only
e Southern State in which a large mum
t ber of really frstciass hotels can be
e found, and the result IS that tens of
+ thousands of the richest people in the
: country annually visit that State. 1t
J. is estimated on good authority that
d Northern visitors spend not less than
d 100000 every winter in Florida.
o 1t has been said that the prosperity of
T Atlanta is largely due to the Constjtu-
is ton and TO the Kimball hotel The
$ Constitution as wide awake, vigorous
II paper has made Atlanta known all
r over the world, and the Kimball
II House has furnished such good ac-
e commodations to the visitors to that
II city that everybody leaves the place
well pleased with Atlanta. The peo-
pie Of Admission showed their faith IL
the value OF these two great agencies
fist when they built thai magnificent
Admission Inn, which is the delight
h and charm of every visitor, and
z secondly when they organized a COM
is pany backed van abundanceof money
= to publish first class daily paper,
it managed by one OF the best known
k newspaper men in the South. 1t
y would have been folly, however, to
lie have built this Inn and furnished it il
n. its present splendid style, unle-s it
he was properly managed, and SO they
n arranged with an experienced North
e ern hotel keeper to run this house SC
is that it should be equal in every respect
N to the very best of Northern hotels.
Sc Those who have stopped at the Inn
" and noted with delight the perfection
n of its cleanliness, its neatness and its
as table and have then been forced to
re put up at some Of the other hotels ir
~ the South, become enthusiastic adver.
- tisers Of this Inn, and thus of the
s. whole town. 1t has already paid the
er town many times its cost, and it will
a. for years to come be one of Admission
id greatest cards, and so with the new